{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"75fa8d6222d817150e3bca66","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/75fa8d6222d817150e3bca66","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/75fa8d6222d817150e3bca66","title":"Cloud Engineer","description":"Overview Who We Are\r\nSteampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we're passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients' ever-changing needs.\r\nAt Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while repurposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.\r\nWhile good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one.We also believe effective teams are powered by diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. To that end, Steampunk is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, and protected veteran status, amongst our ranks. Additionally, we participate in the E-Verify program.\r\nContributions As a Cloud Engineer , you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud migration, cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with cloud platform services and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation. Responsibilities include:\r\nIdentify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the customer\r\nDesign, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems\r\nUnderstanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers\r\nAutomate and improve configuration, provisioning, deployment,and release processes\r\nTesting and examining code written by others and analyzing results\r\nEnsuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats\r\nIdentifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and 'fixes'\r\nWorking with software developers and DevSecOps engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended\r\nSupportenterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure throughinfrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing\r\nEnsure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with organizational security policies and best practices\r\nDocument as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations\r\nIdentify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues\r\nAct as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members\r\nEngineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided\r\nPresent regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members\r\nQualifications Required\r\nAbility to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance\r\nBS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience\r\n5+ total years of experience\r\n3 Years of Experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions\r\n3 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP)\r\n3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket\r\n3 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment\r\n3 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration\r\n3 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration\r\nExperience with cloud-native networking components (e.g., AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, Azure VNets)\r\nExperience with troubleshooting and resolving networking and cloud infrastructure issues\r\nMust have and maintain an active cloud related certification\r\nPreferred\r\nCertifications: AWS Certified DevOos Engineer\r\nAWS Certified Solution SysOps Administrator Associate\r\nMicrosoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate\r\nSAFe DevOps Certification\r\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills\r\nExperience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred\r\nExperience with scripting in Concourse, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, or Ruby\r\nExperience implementing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes\r\nExperience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible\r\nExperience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics\r\nAbout steampunk Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $100,000 to $155,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk's total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.\r\nIdentity Statement\r\nAs part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.\r\nSteampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company , we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. 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To that end, Steampunk is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, and protected veteran status, amongst our ranks. Additionally, we participate in the E-Verify program.\r\nContributions As a Cloud Engineer , you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support cloud migration, cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with cloud platform services and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation. 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The projected compensation range for this position is $100,000 to $155,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk's total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.\r\nIdentity Statement\r\nAs part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.\r\nSteampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. 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